Paintings from the end of the 19th century into the 20th, by Pymonenko, Murashko, Malevich, Bohomazov, Boichuk, Ekster and others.
Murashko
Curtains in Raphael’s remarkable trompe l’oeil, concealing a nude, opened by the peeping tom, revealing a lost lover, and as separator between players and spectators.
A personal choice of ten of the most wonderful paintings by artists from Ukraine, selected from the 8-month series of articles published here last year.
Able to develop distinctive movements, many of these artists trained in Ukraine under Ukrainian artists, and were part of the development of modernist painting.
Born in Ukraine, started his training there, trained in Saint Petersburg and then in Paris. But he died in Finland, and didn’t return to Russia after the 1917 Revolution.
Naturalist views of ordinary people in Ukrainian countryside that use Bastien-Lepage’s successful formula with defocussing of the background.
In twenty years, he established himself as a leading figurative painter and portraitist, then was murdered. Now his remaining paintings are under threat.
